Polluted rivers is a deliberate way of killing not only aquatic life as fishes and the flora life but shortening human life on earth. We humans have polluted sme river bodies as the Odaw, Ganges and Citarum rivers to the extent of a near non-freshening level.
About 70% of the human body is made of water hence it needs clean water to keeping us alive, and so we must take steps to cease polluting our rivers.
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